US ATLAS Transparent Distributed Facility Workshop

Tuesday 4 Mar 2008, 09:00 → 21:15 Europe/Zurich

University of North Carolina

Michael Ernst (BNL, ATLAS), Robert GARDNER (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)

US ATLAS Facility meeting co-located with the OSG All Hands Consortium meeting hosted by RENCI, North Carolina

OSG All Hands Consortium Meeting Website OSG All Hands Meeting Website

US ATLAS Facility twiki (background information and notes) http://www.usatlas.bnl.gov/twiki/bin/view/Admins/DistributedFacilityWorkshop2008.html

09:00 → 10:45 Operations and FDR

09:00 Introduction, schedule, required capabilities

Speaker: Michael Ernst (BNL, ATLAS)

Slides

• US-ATLAS-Tier-2-RENCI.pdf
• US-ATLAS-Tier-2-RENCI.ppt
• US-ATLAS-Tier-2-RENCI.ppt

09:30 Supporting Users and Coordinating Operations in the Facility

Speaker: Kaushik De (UT-Arlinton)

Slides ops-mar08.pdf ops-mar08.ppt

10:00 FDR - Results so far, schedule and challenges

Speaker: James Herbert Cochran Jr (Iowa State University)

Slides fdr_unc_mb.pdf fdr_unc_mb.ppt

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:45 Distributed Analysis

11:00 A distributed analysis demonstrator using Pathena analysis queues on Tier2 facilities

Speaker: Ms Nurcan Ozturk (University of Texas at Arlington)

Slides NurcanOzturk_pathenaDemo_mar3_v2.pdf NurcanOzturk_pathenaDemo_mar3_v2.ppt

11:30 Data distribution and placement strategies

Speaker: Kaushik De (UT-Arlinton)

Slides ddm-mar08.pdf ddm-mar08.ppt

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 15:30 Tier3 Analysis

13:45 Tier3 analysis scenarios, revisited

Speaker: Amir Farbin (Univ. of Texas at Arlington)

Slides OSG-Tier3.pdf

14:30 ATLAS data and the Tier3

- access tools and methods for Tier3-based analyses - uploading and registering user datasets

Speaker: Marco Mambelli (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)

Slides Tier3Data_MM.pdf Tier3Data_MM.ppt

15:00 Deployment and use of PROOF/xrootd in the Facility

Speaker: Sergey Panitkin (Department of Physics - Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))

Slides Proof_for_T3_v2.pdf

15:30 → 16:30 Tier3 Facilities

15:30 Equipping Tier3 Centers: an example Tier3

Speaker: Doug Benjamin (Duke University)

Slides Duke_Tier3.pdf.pdf Duke_Tier3.ppt.ppt

15:50 Equipping Tier3 Centers: SMU Tier3 plans

Speaker: Justin Ross (SMU)

Slides SMU_US_Atlas_Tier_3.pdf

16:30 → 16:45 Coffee break

16:45 → 18:05 Preparations for First Data

16:45 First data scenarios (discussion)

- based on what has been learned in FDR and present and near-term capabilities - sharpen near term goals - setting user expectations

17:45 Summary and next steps

Review action items from the meeting

Speaker: Robert GARDNER (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)